What we measured
We loaded thefp.com in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 8
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 7
- Signal-to-noise
- 6
- Access
- 5
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 8
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of thefp.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from The Free Press
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- The War over the WNBA. Plus. . .
- It’s Your Right to Get a Face Tattoo
- Will the Culture Wars Kill the WNBA?
- TGIF: For Now, We Polka
- Tanks vs. Drones
- Brad Pitt Is Drinking Again
- Tyler Cowen: A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration
- Book Club
- You Think Modern Dating’s Awful? Then Fix It.
- AOC’s Egg Freeze and Why You’re Not Having a Baby
- Tough Love: My Son Got a Girlfriend—and Shut Me Out
- Caitlin Flanagan on AOC and Egg Freezing. Revenge of the Democratic Establishment. Plus. . .
- Why Democrats Said No to Francesca Hong
- Rod Dreher: Identity Politics Destroyed the Democrats. Republicans Are Next.
- Caitlin Flanagan: Must Egg Freezing Be ‘Normalized’ by AOC?
Where it sits in World & Politics
- #29 The American Conservative74
- #30 The Economist – International74
- #31 The Free Press73.5
- #32 The Hill73
- #33 The Atlantic71.5